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Help needed with BSOD - machine check exception

· OS - Windows 10· x64.· What was original installed OS on system? - Windows 10 if i recall correctly. · Is the OS an OEM version (came pre-installed on system) or full retail version (YOU purchased it from retailer)? It came preinstalled with the laptop.· Age of system (hardware) - Around a year. Maybe a bit less.· Age of OS installation - have you re-installed the OS? - The same around a year. Never formatted so far.

Sometimes the laptop gets hot. It has a button that when you press it , it turns the fans to 100%. I usually run it on "Power saver" plan so it wont get hot and if i do hear the fans accelerating i use the button to make the temperature drop.
Most of my BSODs are machine check exceptions and they are pretty seldom to my knowledge. It may have something to do with temperature though.

It's mostly related to hardware, but overheating can also cause them (as can low-level drivers and compatibility issues)

You can monitor your temps using this procedure:

Download SpeedFan v. 4.5.1 or later (free from here: http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php ) can log temperatures in a CSV file:To make it work (log the temps to a file) you have to do BOTH of the below:

1. Enable logging in general: Configure...Log...check "Enabled" then click on OK to save.

2. Enable logging for specific checks: Configure...Temperatures..left click on each sensor, then click on "Logged" at the bottom of the Window (for our purposes we want them all) then once you've selected "Logged" for all sensors, then click on OK to save.

The log will be located at C:\Program Files (x86)\SpeedFan

Naming: log files are named SFLogYYYYMMDD.csv, where YYYY is the year (four digits), MM is the month (2 digits, zero padded) and DD is the day (2 digits, zero padded). If a file already exists by that name, the file that already exists is renamed according to the following naming scheme: SFLogYYYYMMDD-CCCC.csv, where CCCC is a increasing number. The new file is then created with the standard file name scheme.

Notes: whenever you change the options related with logging, SpeedFan starts a new log file.

[/quote]NOTE:You may want to turn logging off when we're done - as I don't know it's impact on performance or on the system.

There is a memory dump from February, and several from April - and only one from June.

Often these older dumps aren't even related to the problem at hand - but I'll run them anyway to see if we can spot any trends.

Your UEFI/BIOS (version E16J2IMS.113) dates from 2015. Please check at the manufacturer's website to see if there are any UEFI/BIOS updates available for your system. If you are able to install the update through Windows (without booting from an external drive), then go ahead and update it. WARNING - if the computer might shut down during this procedure, please don't do it, as this may physically damage the computer and prevent it from booting.FYI - W8 and W10 communicate more with the UEFI/BIOS than previous versions of Windows, so it's important to ensure that the UEFI/BIOS is kept up to date (and that outdated UEFI/BIOS' may be the cause of some compatibility issues).

Only 10 Windows Update hotfixes installed. Most build 14393 (1607) systems have more than this. Please visit Windows Update and get ALL available Windows Updates.The actual number is not important. Rather it's important that you checked manually, installed any available updates, and didn't experience any errors when checking or updating.

C: drive only has about 7% free space. Windows likes 15% free space in order to perform stuff "behind the scenes" without adversely affecting the system's performance. Please free up 15% on ALL hard drives (you can get away with 10% on larger drives and won't notice a large performance penalty). Low free space can cause BSOD's - but the actual amount depends on the files being used by the system.

Interestingly, most of the Machine Check Exception errors listed in the WER section of the MSINFO32 report are from the XP version of this error (STOP 0x9C rather than STOP 0x124).

This often (although not always) can be attributed to compatibility issues.

One of the errors points to a Samsung device and a USB driver - do you have anything resembling that? If so, disconnect the device and uninstall it's software immediately.

Also, for the USB error - be sure to update your USB 3.0 drivers to the latest, W10 compatible version.

3rd Party Drivers:The following is for information purposes only. My recommendations were given above. The drivers that follow belong to software or devices that were not developed by Microsoft. You can find links to the driver information and where to update the drivers in the section after the code box:

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Wow i am amazed at the amount of information you have gathered.
Ok where to begin..

Firstly, as you can see the blue screens occur every couple of months or so. So it will be hard to see if they actually stopped happening due to anything you asked me to do, but hopefully they will.

Lets see what i did do:

1)I updated windows fully.
2)I cleared up space on C drive.

3)i updated dragon gaming center

4) the same for vpn driver even though i have no clue what that is. I have used a free vpn in the past, but either way went i had and installed what was pointed at me.

5)About the samsung device and the usb driver, i remember that that blue screen occured when i unplugged my charging phone from my computer.

I use(d) to make android apps for hobby and i frequently connect(ed) my phone to this computer. Also i had Samsung kies installed somewhen to unroot an android device but then i had uninstalled it. There probably are some leftovers,

which could be what caused the error. I have reinstalled samsung kies and will try to uninstall it with CCleaner (hopefully fully) tommorow.
6) I have updated every single driver i could find . I couldnt find them all though. Graphics cards drivers (including intergrated), bluetooth, killer ethernet etc were easy but some of the links you posted, point at avast which i am using however it is already fully updated. Same goes for malwarebytes and some few others. Also it does not help that MSI's website for my laptop has mostly 2015 outdated drivers.

7) I did create a temperature log as you told me to, but you didnt mention for how long or if i needed to stress the computer. I actually monitor the temperature of the laptop every day since the day i bought it so i can give you all the info you want. I usually run on power saver mode because it gets really hot otherwise (up to 87 celsius when browsing). Whenever i play a game i hit the button on it that turns the fans up to 100%. Depending on the game, with the fans at 100% and even with power saver mode it goes at 76 degrees celsius average. I dont even dare to put it on high performance. I actually did it once and it froze at some random point.
I can upload that log if you want but it only has numbers like 76000 on it. I did not stress it during the log, i had it on balanced performance and was downloading drivers to update (but not updating at the time).

and what i failed to:
1)I can not upgrade the BIOS through windows and because i am inexperienced and it seems risky, i would rather not try it for now.
2)the same applies for Driver Verifier, it looks so risky. What if it never boots again? The device works pretty well, 1 blue screen every couple of months is okaaay enough.

3)I can not for the life of me find how to update the usb 3 drivers of the motherboard. There is no such thing on the manifacturers website, windows's device manager tells me that the driver is already up to date and CPUID's driver assistant tool (which i only used to verify that the drivers i installed are up to date) tells me too that it is already up to date.

According to the later tool , i have not updated the following drivers:Intel® 8 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller

SMS/MMS device ( i dont use such a thing )

Bluetooth device (times 2, i have no bluetooth device connected to the computer and i did update the bluetooth driver (but) from the manifacturer's website.Intel® 8 Series/C220 Series PCI Express Root Port #5 - 8C18

Intel® 8 Series/C220 Series PCI Express Root Port #7 - 8C1C

Intel® 8 Series/C220 Series PCI Express Root Port #8 - 8C1E

Intel® HM87 LPC Controller - 8C4B

Intel® Management Engine Interface

Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery

Mobile 5th Generation Intel® Core PCI Express x16 Controller - 1601

Synaptics SMBus Driver ( i did update the touchpad driver, i dont know why this is mentioned as not updated)

Thats pretty much it. Thank you very much for your assistance. If you have anything else to propose, i am all ears. I will inform you if another blue screen occurs.

My browser caused a flood of traffic, sio my IP address was banned. Hope to fix it soon. Will get back to posting as soon as Im able.

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